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Unilever’s underlying sales were up 3.7%, and net profits grew 5.5% to €5.5bn (£4.7bn) – although currency changes meant revenues fell 1% to €52.7bn (£44.8bn). Polman was asked on a conference call this morning wheth...

A disabled person on the DWP’s Work Programme was three times as likely to be sanctioned as to be found a job, according to evidence given to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee by Inclusion Scotland.   New powers wil...

More than 4 million people still without work. The unemployment rate in Spain fell 2.3 percentage points to 18.6 percent in 2016, its lowest level since 2009, per the National Institute of Statistics on Thursday. In the last 12 months, the tota...

Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency opening hours will change from 6 February 2017. To allow staff to better respond at peak times, telephone lines will close 30 minutes earlier each evening, when fewer calls are received. The new open...

The Committee today publishes correspondence between Rt Hon Frank Field MP and Caroline Nokes MP, Minister for Welfare Delivery, regarding call charges on telephone services provided by DWP and third-sector partner organisations. The Committee is con...

Ambulance services are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with rising demand for urgent and emergency services, per the National Audit Office. Demand for ambulance services continues to grow rapidly. Contributing factors may include the increa...

Commenting on the Government response to the Committee’s report on Intergenerational Fairness, Committee Chair Rt Hon Frank Field MP said:   “We will continue to press for cross-party consensus on the replacement of the triple lock a...

French Socialist party primary winner Benoit Hamon is backing the Unconditional Basic Income idea. The income plan he has outlined from the BBC would be put into effect in three stages. First, the current minimum welfare payment for France's poorest...

How would you like to receive €560 a month — no strings attached? It’s not an email scam but rather an experiment by the Finnish government which has selected at random a group of unemployed citizens across the country to partic...

Spanish household wealth declined 37% between 2008 and 2014:   The Bank of Spain has calculated that the median wealth of Spanish households collapsed after the financial crisis, falling to €119,400 in 2014 from €190,400 in 2008....